Church Of St Mark

The Church of St Mark is a parish church dating from 1872, designed by Joseph Potts & Son, with significant contributions from James Hartley, a glassmaker. The church is constructed from snecked stone with ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring fishscale bands on the chancel. It comprises a chancel with an apse, a north vestry, a south organ chamber, an aisled nave with transepts, north and west porches, and a clerestory west of the transepts. The architectural style is Early English.

The east apse has three lancet windows. All doors are boarded and are surrounded by shafts with dripmoulds over two-centred arches. The north door, set within a gabled pent roof topped with a fleur-de-lys finial, is flanked by prominent buttresses and a four-light window above the porch, with a six-foil roundel in the gable peak. Single lights flank the porch and buttresses. A paired western entrance has similar treatment, with three buttresses, large windows above the doors, and a roundel in a pointed arched gable panel, flanked by two-light west aisle windows with plate tracery. Shafts have stiff-leaf capitals. Windows are cusped lancets, paired in the aisles and stepped in the three-light vestry and clerestory. Aisle roofs are low and wide west of the transepts, and the vestry has a gabled roof with a stone cross finial. A high gabled bellcote with a cusped bell arch and gabled kneelers is situated to the west.

Inside, the church features painted plaster and ashlar with painted ashlar dressings, and an arch-braced collar and king post roof supported by chevron-moulded corbels. The four-bay nave and transept arcades have wide four-centred arches with recessed chamfers on round piers with crocketed capitals. A high pointed chancel arch is present. The north transept includes an arcaded rerearch to a four-light window above the porch. Segmental-headed rerearches are found in all windows. The interior also contains a Perpendicular reredos, a tiled chancel floor, a painted Gothic stone pulpit with a brass and wrought-iron rail, a similar Communion rail, shaped pew ends, and a flagged floor in the nave. Stained glass features, notably a high-quality depiction of St George in the north porch.